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by hirundo 4y ago
The finance world runs on tables. They want to ingest it, query it, join it, aggregate it ... and look at the result in tables. Tables are everywhere, and a generic tabular format is constantly useful for a la carte one off spontaneous data
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Most tabular data currently gets exchanged as: CSV, Tab separated, XML, JSON or Excel. And they are all highly sub-optimal for the job. > CSV is a mess. One quote in the wrong place and the file is invalid. That breaks the other for
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm 59 you young whippersnapper, and one thing I've learned in all those extra months is that my inelastic brain has some useful ruts carved in it, such that I can bang out much code in a fraction of the time that I used to, just
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The Scapegoating Reflex(twitter.com)
1 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
"Without the limitations of a lens, the lensless camera could be ultra-miniature, which could allow new applications that are beyond our imagination." Smaller, cheaper, lower power, stealthier cameras will enable even more ubiquit
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by hirundo 4y ago
I've owned dobermans and golden retrievers, and their personalities diverged significantly in stereotypical ways. I doubt my judgment here is a function of bias, but I wouldn't know, would I? I also agree with the observation that
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by hirundo 4y ago
If it isn't mysterious data manipulation, conservatives are arriving in greater numbers than liberals are departing.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Animals are going to create meat a lot more efficiently than cell cultures for a long time to come. So growing meat in space is about animal husbandry. The ideal space livestock may be a lot like a tribble.
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by hirundo 4y ago
We built that big cement dam decades and decades ago. We've learned so much about engineering and risk assessment since then. It makes sense that we might need to do a little debugging and refactoring now and then. It's pretty rea
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by hirundo 4y ago
I understand that it doesn't bother a lot of people at all. But to me -- and many many others -- masks feel suffocating. That makes me angry and disgruntled and not a very nice person to be around. That is regardless of politics or med
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by hirundo 4y ago
If I could go on Twitter and only see stuff from people I follow I'd feel the same as you about it. But they make it almost impossible not to be barraged with other stuff too, and not just ads, but hate and insanity that I tried hard n
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Mov... There are people who unironically belong to this movement who would urge this woman not to mate. I don't agree with their arguments, but I believe th
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by hirundo 4y ago
"The most durable digital storage medium is stable at room temperature for 300 quintillion years, a material created by researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, as published on 23 January 2014.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Unfortunately you picked a word that is highly politically charged at the moment. Not that I can think of a better one. Perhaps its popularity as a pejorative will fade.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Because it's just a coincidence that we have soaring inflation after a couple of years of greatly increasing the money supply and keeping interest rates low while paying people not to work.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Although this may be considered an unflattering characterization…we have found no evidence to contradict the basic general principle that men will do whatever is required in order to obtain sex, and perhaps not a great deal more. I jus
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by hirundo 4y ago
Apparently doxxing means whatever the author wants it to mean, and she wants it to include tweeting a link to a social media post without any additional information. And tweeting that link makes broadcasting the name of the previously anony
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by hirundo 4y ago
Remote work helps a lot in that case. I got my current remote job, which was specifically advertising for young developers, without mentioning my age. They know I'm an old fogey now, but that was after I had proven myself. Yes, I had t
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by hirundo 4y ago
I was a failed dieter from age 7 to 57. It took me that long to figure out that this body works best on animal products. I was never a particular meat eater and had to be forced to try it by an inability to move my bowels on anything else.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'm a long-time serial dieter who has radically changed my diet on several occasions now, from SAD to vegitarian to SAD to vegan to SAD to raw vegan to SAD to FODMAP to SAD to McDougall high carb to paleo low carb to meat-centered to
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Humans are not smart enough to have ideas that lie beyond challenge and debate(reason.com)
19 points by hirundo 4y ago|2 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
Hormesis and the hygiene hypothesis suggest that "working out" can be good for the immune system too. Unfortunately variolation has become a difficult topic.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Update: false alarm.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Furze
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by hirundo 5y ago
See also "Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males" from a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036817 The lightning strike gender-bias is an example of the sa
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by hirundo 5y ago
> There is only so many times I can watch a mid-level 80 minute movie script be dragged out across 10 hours Jack Reacher. 80 minutes would have been just right.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Isn't a bigotry a form of a stereotype? If so it's like conflating apples with fruit.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-re... Another way to say that, is that bigotries are
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by hirundo 5y ago
Foxes are canid, but vulpine rather than canine.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> Feminism painted itself into a corner in the 1990s when it embraced the word "girl". They embraced a common diminutive as a metonym for a woman. This is commonly used as an act of empowerment, e.g. "queer", "ga

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